The colonial quarter of this city of just under 27,000 is s one of this country’s oldest settlements, founded on a peninsula in 1680 not by Spaniards but by Portuguese settlers, then switching back and forth between Portugal and Spain, then independent Brazil, before finally becoming part of Uruguay. It can be reached via 2½-hour drive from Uruguay’s capital Montevideo as well as from Buenos Aires with a comfy, high-speed ferry ride away across the wide, murky Río Plata (one to three hours, depending on the ship).
Read all about it in my Tripatini post here.
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